Fly fishing is about catching fish with man made imitations of the life forms, (mainly aquatic insects), that make up most of the food eaten by fish in our rivers and lakes. It is the oldest form of sport fishing known with evidence of flies tied on bone hooks in Egypt as early as 1400 BC.
The first recognised writing on fly fishing (Treatise on fishing with an angle)was penned by Dame Juliana Berners,an Abbess, in England in the fifteenth century. This was long before the famous classic (The Complete Angler) written again in England by Izaak Walton with fly fishing contributions by his friend and fishing companion Charles Cotton in the seventeenth century. Some of the flies and methods described can still be successful today.
Fly-fishing is practiced using a fly fishing rod, a fly line joined to the rod by a storage reel, a fine tapered nylon leader to connect the artificial fly to the fly line and of course the bait itself our chosen fly.
Although you can fly fish for any species of fish it is a particularly effective method for what are known as game fish, e.g. Trout, Grayling and Salmon.
